A Brusimm Rant :
In any of my other credit / banking accounts, I can log in from anywhere I want. From home, from my laptop while at Starbucks and even work.
Yet if I want to log into Chase.com, I HAVE to log in from work only. Why? Because they force you call in and get a security ID key if you ever log in from a different computer, EVERY TIME. And once they do that, you can't go back to the other computer without jumping through the same hoops again.
When I called to inquire about this policy of theirs, the Chase representative quoted policies that were drafted due to 9/11 scenarios and Homeland Security regulations.
BZZZT!!! Not! Thank you for playing but if that's the case, why can I log in to my other accounts from anywhere I want?
I smell marketing web tracking at work here folks. It's the only reason I can think of why they'd make it so hard to access your own account.
Disclaimer: More than likely, this won't affect very many people at all. Most I know have their one computer and that's that. They wouldn't even notice.
But for those of us who use multiple computers, egads man. Lighten up on us. Use a certificate that we can install across the board instead of making us call you every time we change computers.
In any of my other credit / banking accounts, I can log in from anywhere I want. From home, from my laptop while at Starbucks and even work.
Yet if I want to log into Chase.com, I HAVE to log in from work only. Why? Because they force you call in and get a security ID key if you ever log in from a different computer, EVERY TIME. And once they do that, you can't go back to the other computer without jumping through the same hoops again.
When I called to inquire about this policy of theirs, the Chase representative quoted policies that were drafted due to 9/11 scenarios and Homeland Security regulations.
BZZZT!!! Not! Thank you for playing but if that's the case, why can I log in to my other accounts from anywhere I want?
I smell marketing web tracking at work here folks. It's the only reason I can think of why they'd make it so hard to access your own account.
Disclaimer: More than likely, this won't affect very many people at all. Most I know have their one computer and that's that. They wouldn't even notice.
But for those of us who use multiple computers, egads man. Lighten up on us. Use a certificate that we can install across the board instead of making us call you every time we change computers.
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